It’s been a while and a long build but Sam convinced her to appear in public and reveal her true self behind the “Dallas Noble” pen name. The reveal brought the shitlords to her doorstep and the backlash led to her contract being ended. She kind of blamed Sam (see also: looked for a place to put her anger/sadness) for the whole thing.

Okay, good to know I wasn’t the only one shocked by this. You are right though, they needed an adult to move them past the awkward apology phase and try to get them back on track. Brett did have some serious growing up to do in that year though.

So… any chance this leads to an in-comic look at what Dead Iron is like? ‘Cause I’ve been curious to see what one of Dallas’s games looks like for years now, especially this one since it’s the straw that broke the grognard’s back.

From what little I recall, the “Bad” reviews were mostly by people who were somehow injured at fact that Dallas never actually said that she wasn’t a middle-aged male until the signing incident, as if nom de plumes haven’t been a thing for centuries by now. Nothing was actually said about the quality of the setting. So it’ll be enlightening to see just what kind of designer she actually is.

Which in turn, were mostly spearheaded by Dove, who as near as I can tell is very much of the misogynistic ‘no girls in gaming’ mindset. The little git has taken the idea that he is good at gaming to mean that his ideas and opinions are therefore correct, including outside the tabletop.

Like, literally some sort of possibly enchanted marbles or we talking looking for his sanity? I haven’t played in so long and never really really sunk into the lore because I didn’t have my own books to mark up and read.

Why not both? It is entirely within the realm of possibility that they are magical marbles of sanity, and that after collecting a few of the shiny glass spheres, a player will headdesk and groan as they get the pun.

Not that this looks like anything Dallas would have written, and I’m sure that the subject matter and quality of these two fictional and nonexistent games are completely different, but again, the similarity in titles just gets that image from panel 2 in the link above stuck in my head.